178 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Ridley writes that this plant is not really wild in Singapore, but was prob- 
ably introduced from Java and planted by Javanese. Even in Java it is ap- 
parently only cultivated. Blume calls it a large tree, but I prefer to follow 
the latest authors, Koorders and Valeton, who describe it as small. The fruit 
is said to give a useful wax. The locality ‘ Nilghiri Hills’ has been omitted, 
for the reasons given in the Fl. Br. Ind. Koorders and Valeton call it herma- 
phrodite and certainly flowers of Junghuhn 760. otherwise ~ seem to have 
fertile ovules. The only fruiting specimen I have seen is that of Goodenough 
in the Singapore Herbarium: it has not the thick cupule of Greshoff’s picture 
which may perhaps bebadly drawn. I cannot help thinking that both L. Garcie, 
Vidal Revis. Pl. Vasc. Philipp. 228 (1886), and ZL. griseola, Elmer in Leafi. 
Philipp. Bot. II. 378 (1908), may belong to L. sebijera, Bl. 
46. Litsza Matneayt, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 175 (1886). 
A large evergreen tree reaching 24—36 m. in height and 60—90 cm. 
in diam. of stem; branchlets stout, glabrous, blackish when dry, 
uppermost angular; buds lanceolate, grey-puberulous, as in the 
inflorescence. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, alternate, oblong or oblan- 
ceolate, obtuse acute or sometimes long acuminate at apex, attenuate 
and often unequal at base; both surfaces glabrous, upper shining, 
bullate, reddish brown when dry, lower paler; margins recurved; 
16—40 cm. long, 5—13 cm. broad; midrib stout, plane above, 
raised beneath ; mainnerves 10—18 pairs, irregular, impressed above, 
prominently raised beneath, starting at 50°—60° with the midrib, 
at first straight, then curved to near the margin where they are con- 
nected in prominent loops; transverse nervules irregular, impressed 
above, often branched, enclosing the netted reticulation ; petiole long, 
slender, 4—7 cm. long, black, thick at the base. Flowers in 
tomentose umbellules on peduncles 5—7 mm. long, rather distantly 
scattered along the rhachises of slender axillary or lateral drooping 
racemes up to 16 cm. long; raceme bracts boat-shaped, about 6 mm. 
long, very caducous, grey-puberulous ; involucral bracts 4—5, coria- 
ceous, orbicular, concave, grey-puberulous without, glabrous within ; 
umbellules when open (¢) 10—12 cm. in diam.; flowers in each 
umbellule 6; perianth-tube funnel-shaped, hoary-villous on both 
sides, lobes 6—8 also hoary-villous without, irregular in shape, 
obtuse acute or acuminate, 3 mm. long. Stamens of ¢ flowers 12 
or more, those of the outer rows 3—4 mm. long with oblong usually 
apiculate anthers and slender glabrous filaments, those of the inner 
rows much shorter, the anthers subquadrate apiculate, the filaments 
furnished with a pair of large usually angular glands at the base; 
upper anther cells introrse, lower lateral; rudimentary ovary sunk in 
the perianth-tube or 9. Staminodes of 2 flowers and Frutt not known. 
